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Washington Post hires Insider’s DeChalus to cover Congress

Camila DeChalus

Camila DeChalus will join The Washington Post as a congressional reporter.

DeChalus begins on Oct. 10.

Recently, she was a senior D.C. politics reporter at Insider, where she covered national politics, campaigns, and Congress. Before that, she was a homeland security and immigration reporter at CQ Roll Call.

She reported on breaking news, politics, business, and entertainment news for Circa.com and was a news associate at CNN. She was a journalism fellow at the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and interned at Voice of America.

DeChalus is a member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and the National Association of Black Journalists.

DeChalus has a bachelor’s degree in broadcast journalism from American University.

You can congratulate DeChalus via Twitter.

Mariam Ahmed

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